Improvement in corn-planters



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JOI-IN II. ZARLEY, OF OAKLAND, ILLINOIS.

IMPROVEMENT IN CORN-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 209,440, dated October 29, 1878; application filed i March 12, 1878.

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The object of my invention is to provide an efficient and cheaply-constructed corn-planter,

which may be drawn forward vby horses, but is arranged so that the seed-valves may be operated by hand.

` The invention will first be described in connection with the drawing, and then pointed out in the claim.

Referring to thedrawing, A is the main frame of the planter, composed of the transverse bars a b c and the two pairs of bars d c, which are secured to the bars a b c at right angles, one pair being at each end of the frame A.

Between each pair of bars d e is placed a wheel, B, whose axle is journaled in the said One arm of the lever g extends upward.

from the rock-shaft G, and is formed into a handle, h, by which the seed-valve bar f may be operated. A seat, i, is supported by standards j from the bars a b, and is designed for.

the person who operates the seed-valves.

Across-bar is secured to the rock-shaft D near the forward end, to which at opposite ends foot-plates 7c arc secured.

Aseat, E, is supported from the bars e by standards Z, to support the driver, who may place his feet on the foot-plates 7c: and operate the rock-shaft by the alternate pressure of the right and leftfoot.

In front of the seed-boxes C drill-plows m .are secured to the bars b in front of the 'seedboxes, and lin the track of the wheels 13. A frame, E, which carries two pairs of coveringplows, n, is hinged to the rear end of the frame A, and is connected by a rod, o, with a lever, p, that is pivoted to one of the bars e, and is provided with a beveled nib, q, which engages ratchetfteeth in the curved bar r. By means of this lever the covering-plows n may be adjusted as to height. The frame A is provided with a tongue, F, by which the machine is drawn forward and guided.

The wheels pulverize the earth, and the drill-plows which follow the wheels make the drills for receiving the corn. The dropping is done by hand or foot, and the seed is covered by the plows n.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as` new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The rock-shaft D, having the lever g and the foot-plates 7c, in combination with the seedvalve bar f of a corn-planter, substantially as shown and described.

JOHN EAEIsoN ZARLEY.

Witnesses:

J AMES S. BLACK, A. N. CHAPMAN. 

